Tressie McMillan Cottom

They are making us feel something.

They are not necessarily informing us.

Yeah, I strongly agree.

I think the feeling that we are having when we see an AI image or an AI video is very similar to the feeling we have when we read text written by AI, which is the words can be in the right order.

You can recognize the form of it as being a sentence, a paragraph, a story, or a book, but you do not have the appropriate emotional response to it.

Now, we can get mystical and say that there's something about the human spirit, right, that we infuse into our art, and I am not disinclined to believe that.

But I think that whatever that process is, AI can look like reality, but it cannot communicate emotionally to us in a way that resonates as being authentic.

So I actually think using the word authentic to only speak about the aesthetics

of AI is not exactly right.

Something can be very beautiful and still leave you cold.

And what I think people are experiencing is, hey, that was a really cute thing of a cute puppy jumping up and down a trampoline.

I should like that.

And instead, I don't really feel anything, right?

Having said that, we have spent the last 30 years developing a pretty nasty habit of

scrolling.

And I think it is going to take a lot more than a couple of, you know, feelings of betrayal to interrupt that loop.

I've got to tell you, I'm in a group chat with a group of elderly people who I love and respect a lot.

That's why I'm in the group chat.

It's my mother and some of her friends.

And I think technologically savvy, right, are used to using it in their work lives and in their personal lives.